okay, i'll forget about it. it means i start from the basis and consider if i want to make that risk lower, how much do i want to spend on it when there are a lot of other things that kill people, as well, for example automobiles, your chance of being and 1 in 9 million. >> i want to read a paragraph from your book and for people to follow along. you wrote president george w. bush says for me the lesson of 9/11, he's certainly right about the simplicity of the lesson he managed to come up however in applying it to rae response of 200 billion in direct and indirect costs he created tragedies that were far greater increases in domestic counterterrorism expenditures of over 1 trillion and two wars that thus far have cost several trillion and led to over 100,000 deaths including twice as many